“Cory Booker is a dedicated public servant who views equality for all people as his guiding principle,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “Senator Booker will be a welcome addition to Capitol Hill as we work to pass workplace protections for LGBT people, confirm qualified judicial nominations and a work on a range of other priorities for our community. “

"The call to freedom is still loud and hard because we still live in a nation where some people want to deny the rights of others," he said in his keynote address. “You cannot deny the rights, freedom, and liberty of others without diminishing your own. This is what we must understand.”